Yuji Sumii

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Yuji Sumii is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuji Sumii has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Organic Chemistry, 28 papers in Pharmaceutical Science and 9 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Yuji Sumii's work include Fluorine in Organic Chemistry (28 papers), Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques (10 papers) and Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds (8 papers). Yuji Sumii is often cited by papers focused on Fluorine in Organic Chemistry (28 papers), Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques (10 papers) and Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds (8 papers). Yuji Sumii collaborates with scholars based in Japan, China and United States. Yuji Sumii's co-authors include Norio Shibata, Munenori Inoue, Naoyuki Kotoku, Etsuko Tokunaga, Motomasa Kobayashi, Masayoshi Arai, Takashi Kawachi, Takeshi Hayashi, Zhongyan Huang and Takumi Kagawa and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yuji Sumii

51 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Contribution of Organofluorine Compounds to Pharmaceuticals

2020 1.4k citations Yuji Sumii, Norio Shibata et al. ACS Omega profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yuji Sumii Japan	16	1.4k	1.3k	498	294	87	52	2.0k
Munenori Inoue Japan	18	1.5k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	418 0.8×	341 1.2×	117 1.3×	60	2.1k
Shun Su United States	20	2.2k 1.6×	541 0.4×	414 0.8×	390 1.3×	158 1.8×	27	2.6k
Zhanni Gu China	10	2.2k 1.6×	2.3k 1.7×	700 1.4×	484 1.6×	93 1.1×	13	3.1k
Tomoya Fujiwara Japan	14	850 0.6×	754 0.6×	283 0.6×	168 0.6×	30 0.3×	42	1.2k
Shuni Wang China	16	2.4k 1.8×	2.4k 1.8×	796 1.6×	637 2.2×	71 0.8×	34	3.4k
Pier Alexandre Champagne United States	22	1.7k 1.3×	1.3k 1.0×	553 1.1×	312 1.1×	38 0.4×	47	2.2k
Chukwuemeka Isanbor Nigeria	11	983 0.7×	708 0.5×	186 0.4×	251 0.9×	40 0.5×	34	1.3k
Javier González Spain	31	2.4k 1.7×	194 0.1×	249 0.5×	448 1.5×	91 1.0×	98	2.9k
Petr Beier Czechia	27	1.5k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	410 0.8×	372 1.3×	19 0.2×	123	2.1k
Johan Franzén Sweden	26	2.8k 2.1×	142 0.1×	607 1.2×	581 2.0×	45 0.5×	41	3.1k

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Ota, Hitoshi, Yusuke Murata, Yuji Sumii, et al.. (2025). Room-temperature defluorination of PTFE and PFAS via sodium dispersion. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6526–6526. 2 indexed citations

Sedgwick, Daniel M., Yuji Sumii, Hidehisa Kawahara, et al.. (2024). Design and Mechanistic Insights into α-Helical p-Terphenyl Guanidines as Potent Small-Molecule Antifreeze Agents. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(38). 26435–26441. 2 indexed citations

Nurkanto, Arif, Shanti Ratnakomala, Yuji Sumii, et al.. (2024). Exploring Indonesian actinomycete extracts for anti-tubercular compounds: Integrating inhibition assessment, genomic analysis, and prediction of its target by molecular docking. Heliyon. 10(15). e35648–e35648. 4 indexed citations

Aggarwal, Trapti, et al.. (2023). Regio‐ and Z‐Selective Alkyne Hydroamination and Hydrophenoxylation using Tetrafluoro‐λ⁶‐Sulfanyl Alkynes under Superbasic, Naked Anion Conditions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(33). e202307090–e202307090. 7 indexed citations

Zhou, Jun, et al.. (2023). Synthesis of triarylmethanes by silyl radical-mediated cross-coupling of aryl fluorides and arylmethanes. Chemical Science. 14(16). 4248–4256. 14 indexed citations

Sumii, Yuji, et al.. (2022). Regioselective Synthesis of Pyridine-SF ₄ -Methyl Ketones via Hydration of Pyridine-SF ₄ -Alkynes. Organic Letters. 24(18). 3347–3352. 17 indexed citations

Takada, Hirokazu, et al.. (2022). Synthesis of enantioenriched 2,2-disubstituted pyrrolidines via sequential asymmetric allylic alkylation and ring contraction. Tetrahedron. 123. 132940–132940. 1 indexed citations

Sumii, Yuji, et al.. (2022). Synthesis of Pyridine–SF₄–Isoxazolines Using the Functionality of trans-Tetrafluoro-λ⁶-sulfanyl Rodlike Linkers. Organic Letters. 24(21). 3755–3759. 17 indexed citations

Sumii, Yuji, et al.. (2021). Synthesis of Morita–Baylis–Hillman-fluorides using 1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethyl-N,N-dimethylamine. Tetrahedron. 97. 132387–132387. 5 indexed citations

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Sumii, Yuji, Naoyuki Kotoku, Andi Setiawan, et al.. (2020). 3-(Phenethylamino)demethyl(oxy)aaptamine as an anti-dormant mycobacterial substance: Isolation, evaluation and total synthesis. Tetrahedron Letters. 61(22). 151924–151924. 12 indexed citations

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Yoshioka, Kotaro, et al.. (2020). One-step Synthesis of 2-Hydroxy-2-(trifluoromethyl)malonates by Trifluoromethylation of 2-Oxomalonates with Ruppert-Prakash Reagent. Chemistry Letters. 49(3). 330–333. 2 indexed citations

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Tokunaga, Etsuko, Satoru Mori, Yuji Sumii, & Norio Shibata. (2018). Super-Sensitive Protonation Behavior of Trifluoroethoxy-Substituted Phthalocyanines and Their Application to Solvent Discrimination. ACS Omega. 3(9). 10912–10917. 10 indexed citations

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Wang, Jiandong, et al.. (2017). Synthesis of Sulfur Perfluorophenyl Compounds Using a Pentafluorobenzenesulfonyl Hypervalent Iodonium Ylide. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 82(22). 11939–11945. 6 indexed citations

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Huang, Zhongyan, et al.. (2016). New utility of electrophilic trifluoromethylthiolation reagents for the synthesis of a variety of triflones. Journal of Fluorine Chemistry. 198. 61–66. 8 indexed citations

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Sumii, Yuji, et al.. (2015). Enantioselective synthesis of dictyoceratin-A (smenospondiol) and -C, hypoxia-selective growth inhibitors from marine sponge. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 23(5). 966–975. 20 indexed citations

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Arai, Masayoshi, Patamaporn Pruksakorn, Yuji Sumii, et al.. (2015). Anti-dormant mycobacterial activity and target analysis of nybomycin produced by a marine-derived Streptomyces sp.. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 23(13). 3534–3541. 19 indexed citations

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Huang, Zhongyan, Chen Wang, Etsuko Tokunaga, Yuji Sumii, & Norio Shibata. (2015). Stereoselective Synthesis of β-Lactam-triflones under Catalyst-Free Conditions. Organic Letters. 17(22). 5610–5613. 40 indexed citations

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Sumii, Yuji, et al.. (2015). Structure-Activity Relationship and in Vivo Anti-Tumor Evaluations of Dictyoceratin-A and -C, Hypoxia-Selective Growth Inhibitors from Marine Sponge. Marine Drugs. 13(12). 7419–7432. 15 indexed citations

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Kotoku, Naoyuki, Takashi Kawachi, Takanori Sato, et al.. (2014). Synthesis and evaluation of effective photoaffinity probe molecule of furospinosulin-1, a hypoxia-selective growth inhibitor. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 22(7). 2102–2112. 11 indexed citations

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Kotoku, Naoyuki, Masayoshi Arai, Yuji Sumii, et al.. (2014). Xylarianaphthol-1, a novel dinaphthofuran derivative, activates p21 promoter in a p53-independent manner. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 24(15). 3389–3391. 25 indexed citations

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